Glory to you, O Finder of the lost. Glory to you, O Gatherer
of the dispersed. Glory to you, who bring near the far off. Glory to you, who
return the erring to the knowledge of the truth. Glory to you, my Lord, for you
have called me, even feeble me, in your grace, and have brought me near unto you
in your compassion, and have established me as a designated member in the great
body of your holy catholic church, to offer before you this living, holy, and
acceptable sacrifice, which is the memorial of the passion, death, burial, and
resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,-
through whom you were well-pleased and reconciled to forgive the sins of
all men.

Kushapa

Yea, our Lord and our God, repeat,
do not look upon the multitude of our sins, and do not let your Lordship abhor
the burden of our wickednesses, but in your ineffable grace accept this
sacrifice from our hands, and through it grant power and authority, that it may
be enabled to pardon our many sins, that when you are revealed at the end of
times in the humanity which you took from us, we may find grace and mercies
before you, and may be deemed worthy to sing praise with the spiritual companies.

Gehantha

The priest recites softly this prayer
before the Altar.

O Lord of hosts, omnipotent God repeat,
who is alone eternal, and the Cause and Maker of all creatures, glorious King
who does incomprehensibly great deeds and ineffably glorious and exalted things,
you who, through a marvelous and fearful dispensation, which your Only-begotten,
our Lord Jesus Christ, fulfilled through our humanity, provided for us the
beginnings of new life, and gave us the earnest of the Holy Spirit in our hearts,
and moreover deemed us worthy through your grace of the knowledge of these
glorious, holy, (and divine) Mysteries, though we were not worthy, not only to
offer and perfect them, but also to receive and have fellowship in them, do not,
my Lord, look upon our deficiency and feebleness, but in your goodness and
abundant mercies, fill us with the grace of the Holy Spirit, that when we stand
before you with a clear conscience and offer you this living, holy, acceptable,
and unbloody sacrifice,- we may find
grace and mercies before you repeat

Qanona

with all those who from of old have pleased you, in the grace
and mercies of your Only-begotten, for to you, to him, and to the Holy Spirit we
lift up glory, honor, confession, and worship, now, always, and for ever and
ever. And he signs over himself, and they respond:
Amen. And the priest says: Peace be with you.
And the people reply, answering: And with
you and with your spirit.

And the deacon says: Give
the peace to one another in the love of Christ. And
they give the peace to one another and say: For all catholicoi,
bishops, presbyters, and deacons, and every member of a religious profession who
has departed from the assembly of the church, and for the life and tranquillity
of the world, and for the crown of the year, that it may be blessed and
fulfilled in your grace, and for every child of the church who is worthy of the
reception of this oblation before you, and for all your servants and handmaidens
who stand before you at this hour, for all of them and for all of us may this
oblation be accepted for ever. Amen.Then two deacons
read the diptychs, that is, the roll of the living and the dead.

Then the deacon proclaims:
Let us all in purity and with sighs give thanks and beseech and supplicate the
Lord. Stand aright and look upon those things which are done in the fearful
Mysteries being hallowed. The priest draws near to pray, that by his mediation
peace may be multiplied for you. Lower your eyes, and stretch out your mind to
heaven. And immediately the priest draws near and
inclines before the altar upon his knees and recites this prayer.

Kushapa

O Lord God of hosts, repeat,
assist my weakness in your mercy, and through the aid of your grace make me
worthy to offer before you this living and holy sacrifice, for the help of the
whole community, and for the praise of your glorious Trinity, O Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit for ever.- And
when the deacon says, Watchfully and earnestly beseech and supplicate
at this hour. Let no one venture to speak. Whoever prays, let him pray in his
heart. In silence and awe stand and pray. Peace be with us. The
priest at once arises and lifts the veil (discreetly) from the Mysteries and
winds it round the chalice and paten, saying: Since by your grace, O
my Lord, you have made me worthy of your body and your blood, so make me worthy
of confidence before you on the day of judgment. Amen.

(Prayer of the incense:
With the worshipful and glorious name of your glorious Trinity may this incense
be blessed which we offer to your honor and for our pardon for ever. Amen.)

And the priest censes the paten with
the incense, saying: O our Lord and our God, may the sweet incense
which we offer you before your holy altar within your glorious temple please you,
and may it be for the gladness of your holy name, and for the pardon of your
servants and your flock, O Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for ever.-

And the priest says to the deacon:
May Christ strengthen you to do his will continually. And
he continues (in an audible voice):

Qanona

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God the
Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all, now, always, and
for ever and ever. And he signs over the Mysteries, and
they respond: Amen.

And he continues:

Let your minds be above. And they
respond: With you, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel, O
glorious King. (For Feasts: Above in the
exalted heights, in the fearful place of praise, in the place where the rustling
of the wings of cherubim and the pleasant sounds of the hallowings of seraphim
continue without ceasing, there let your minds be. And
they respond: With you, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of
Israel, O glorious King.)

And he continues:

The oblation is offered unto God, the Lord of all. And
they respond: It is meet and right.

(For Feasts: The living
and rational offering of our first-fruits, and the unslain and acceptable
sacrifice of the Son of our race [addition:
which the prophets depicted in a mystery, and the apostles proclaimed openly,
and the martyrs purchased with the blood of their necks, and the teachers
interpreted in the churches, and the priests sacrificed on the altar of holiness,
and the levites bore upon their arms, and the people received for the pardon of
their debts] is offered to God, the Lord of all, for utterly all creatures. And
they respond: It is meet and right.) And the
deacon says: Peace be with us.

Kushapa

Lord, Lord, grant us confidence before you, that with the
liberty which is from you we may fulfill this living and holy ministry, our
consciences being clear of all evil and bitterness. Sow among us love,
tranquillity, and unity with each other and with all men.-

And he rises and kisses the altar.-
Also, it is necessary to know this, that at the beginning of each
gehantha and at its end he makes a genuflection and kisses the altar. And the
priest continues, his hands outstretched (from now on) in an orderly fashion.
And he says this gehantha softly.-

It is meet, O my Lord, every day, repeat,
and right at all times, and worthy at every hour, to confess your holy name and
to worship your Lordship in every land and in every place—you, O God, the
Father of truth, the everlasting Being, and your Only-begotten Son, our Lord
Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit for ever, amen.- For
you are the Lord and Maker of all that is seen and all that is unseen, who
through your Only-begotten Son, God the Word, who is the brightness of your
glory, the effulgence from you, and the image of your Being, created and set in
order the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them; and by the Holy
Spirit, the Spirit of truth, who is from you, Father, all rational natures,
visible and invisible, are strengthened, sanctified, and made worthy to lift up
praise to your worshipful Godhead. For before you, O God, the Father of truth,
and before your Only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and before the Holy
Spirit stand thousands upon thousands of those on high, and ten thousand times
ten thousand holy angels, who for the delight of their lives, in constancy of
their wills, hallow your great and holy name with continual praise. Through your
grace, O my Lord, you have also made worthy the weak race of mortal men to offer
up praise and honor to your all-ruling Lordship with all the companies of those
on high, with those who at all times cry out before the greatness of your
holiness, praising your glorious Trinity,- which
is confessed in three equal and inseparable qnome,-
repeat,

Qanona

crying and singing praise ceaselessly, calling to one another
and saying,

And they respond: Holy,
holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts, for heaven and earth are full of his
praises, and of the nature of his Being, and of the excellency of his glorious
splendor. And they continue on Feasts:
Hosanna in the heights. Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he who came and
comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the heights. And
with each cry of “holy” the priest makes a genuflection before the altar.
And he kneels and says this kushapa:

Kushapa

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts, for heaven and
earth are full of his praises, and of the nature of his Being, and of the
excellency of his glorious splendor, even as “Heaven and earth are filled by
me,” says the Lord. You are holy, O God, the Father of truth, from whom all
fatherhood in heaven and on earth is named. You are holy, O eternal Son, through
whom all came about. You are holy, O Holy Spirit, Being through whom all is
hallowed.- Woe is me! Woe is me! for
I am amazed. For I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people whose
lips are unclean, and my eyes have seen the King, the mighty Lord. How terrible
is this place, for today I have seen the Lord face to face, and this is nothing
if not the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.-
Now let your grace be upon us, O Lord.-
Repeat. Purify our uncleanness, sanctify our lips, and, O
my Lord, join our deficient voices with the hallowing of the seraphim and the
praises of the angels. Glory to your mercies, for you have given creatures of
dust fellowship with spiritual beings. And he rises and
says: Bless, O my Lord, bless, O my Lord, bless, O my Lord, my
brothers, pray for me. And he recites this gehantha
softly:

Gehantha

Truly, Lord, repeat, you
are holy, and you are glorious for ever and ever. You are holy, O God, the
Father of truth, and truly holy as well is your Only-begotten Son, our Lord
Jesus Christ, and indeed, holy in truth is the Holy Spirit, uncreated divine
nature, Maker of everything, who naturally is holy for ever. Holy is his name
and holy his dwelling-place, and in truth he sanctifies all who are deemed
worthy to receive the gift of his grace, and we lift up praise, honor,
confession, and worship to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now, always, and
for ever and ever. Amen.-

We worship you, O my Lord, repeat,
and we confess you and glorify you for all your kindnesses towards us, for you
created us from nothing, and you deemed us worthy of the great honor of freedom
and of intelligence, who from of old and at every moment concern yourself with
the condition of our life. Before your great and fearful name we bow down and
worship, and with us all the companies on high also give glory and confession
for your ineffable goodness. For on behalf of us men and for our salvation the
Only-begotten God the Word, who is the likeness of God, did not consider this,
that he was the equal of God, as something to be forcibly grasped, but emptied
himself out and took the likeness of a servant, when he descended from heaven
and clothed himself with our humanity, a mortal body and a rational, sentient,
and immortal soul, of the holy Virgin, by the power of the Holy Spirit, through
which he fulfilled and perfected all this great and marvelous dispensation,
which was prepared in your foreknowledge before the foundations of the world.
And you have fulfilled it now, in the last times, through your beloved Son, our
Lord Jesus Christ, in whom dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And he
is the Head of the church and the First-born from the dead, and he is the
Fullness of all, and all is made complete in him, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without spot to God and sanctified us with the offering of his
body once. And he, by himself, reconciled through the blood of his cross
whatever is in heaven and whatever is on earth, for he was delivered for our
sins, and rose that he might justify us.

For with his holy apostles, on the night in which he was
betrayed, he appointed this great, holy, and divine Mystery, taking bread in his
holy hands, and blessing and breaking it, and giving it to his disciples, saying,
This is my body which is broken for the life of the world and for the
forgiveness of sins. In the same way also he gave thanks over the cup and gave
to them and said, This is my blood of the new testament which is shed for many
for the forgiveness of sins. Take, therefore, all of you, and eat of this bread
and drink of this cup. You must do the same, whenever you gather for my memorial.

And as we have been commanded, so we have gathered, even we,
your deficient, feeble, and miserable servants, that with the permission of your
grace we may perform this great, fearful, holy, and divine Mystery,-
in which is great salvation for the entire race of men, repeat,

Qanona

lifting up praise, honor, confession, and worship to the
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now, always, and for ever and ever. And
he signs over the Mysteries, and they respond: Amen.

And the deacon says: Pray
in your minds. Peace be with us.

Kushapa

O Lord God of hosts, accept this oblation (from my feeble
hands) for all the holy catholic church, for all the just and righteous fathers
who were well-pleasing before you, for all the prophets and apostles, for all
the martyrs and confessors, for all mourners and distressed, for all the needy
and harassed, (for all priests, kings, and rulers,) for all the sick and
afflicted, for all the departed who have departed and gone from among us, for
this people which looks for and awaits your mercies,-
and for my feebleness, misery, and poverty. Repeat.
Yea, our Lord and our God, according to your mercies and the abundance of your
kindness, act toward your people and toward my misery, not according to my sins
and offenses, but may we be deemed worthy, I and these, of the pardon of debts
and the forgiveness of sins, through this holy body which we receive in true
faith through the grace which is from you. Amen.-
And he rises and says: Bless, O my Lord. Three
times.- And he recites this gehantha softly:

Gehantha

We worship you, O my Lord, repeat,
and give thanks to you, and glorify you, for though we are not worthy because of
our sins, you have brought us near to you because of your many mercies, and you
have renewed us and sanctified us through the grace of the Holy Spirit. You have
made us worthy to minister before you this fearful and divine ministry for the
salvation of our life, while we offer before you confession with much
thanksgiving for the great salvation which is ours through your beloved Son, our
Lord Jesus Christ. And we offer before your glorious Trinity, with a broken
heart and a lowly spirit, this living, holy, and acceptable sacrifice, the
Mystery of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, beseeching you,
and supplicating you, that your worshipful Godhead may be pleased, O my Lord,
and in your mercy this pure and holy oblation may be accepted, through which you
have been satisfied and appeased for the sins of the world.-

Now too, O my Lord, repeat,
lo, this oblation is offered before your great and fearful name for all the holy
catholic church, that you may make your peace and tranquillity to dwell within
it all the days of the world.- Yea,
our Lord and our God, repeat, make your
tranquillity and peace to dwell within it all the days of the world, and may
persecution, tumults, strife, schisms, and divisions be put far from it, and may
all of us be joined, one to another, in one unity, with a pure heart and perfect
love.- And for all our fathers, the
bishops, visitors, presbyters, and deacons who are in this ministry of truth,
that they may be established and serve before you purely, circumspectly, and in
holiness, and may please your will, so that they may be deemed worthy to receive
from you good and exalted ranks at the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ;-
and for all the children of the holy catholic church, here and everywhere,
that they may grow strong in the worship of your Lordship, in true faith and
with good and excellent deeds, for the salvation of their life; and for your
sinful and offending servant, that by your grace, O my Lord, you may pardon my
sins and make my offenses to pass away, those which knowingly and unknowingly I
have committed and done before you; and for all those for whom this oblation is
offered, that they may find mercies and compassion before you, and may be saved;
- and for the fruits of the earth and
the temperature of the air, that the crown of the year may be blessed through
your grace. Repeat three times.-
And for the whole race of men who are in sin and error, that
through your grace, O my Lord, you will deem them worthy of the knowledge of the
truth and of the worship of your Lordship, that they may know you, that you are
God, the only Father of truth, the Good One, who desires that all men should
live and turn to the knowledge of the truth and know that you are the Lord from
of old and for ever, the divine, uncreated nature, the Maker of everything,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. For on behalf of us men and for our salvation, the
Son of God, God the Word, clothed himself with a complete man, our Lord Jesus
Christ, and he was perfected and justified by the power of God and the Holy
Spirit, and became the Mediator between God and men, and the Giver of life for
ever and ever to all who draw near to God the Father through him, to whom be
praises and blessings for ever and ever, amen.-

Yea, our Lord and our God, repeat,
accept from us in your grace this sacrifice of praise, which is the rational
fruit of our lips, that there may be a good memorial before you for the
righteous of old, the holy prophets and blessed apostles, the martyrs and
confessors, the bishops and teachers, the presbyters and deacons, and all the
children of the holy catholic church who in the true faith have departed from
this world,- here he makes
the sign and stretches out upon his face, that in your loving-kindness,
O my Lord, you may pardon for them all the sins and offenses which in this world,
in a mortal body and a mutable soul, they have committed and done before you,-
for there is no man who does not sin, or does not need mercy and pardon
from you. Repeat.

And we beseech you, O my Lord, and supplicate you, and
worship you, and petition you, that your worshipful Godhead and your
mercifulness may be well-pleased, O my Lord,

AND THERE MAY COME

upon us and upon this oblation the grace of the Holy Spirit.
May he dwell and rest upon this bread and upon this cup, and may he bless,
consecrate, and seal them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Spirit. By the power of your name may this bread become the holy body of
our Lord Jesus Christ, and this cup the precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and whoever in true faith eats this bread and drinks this cup, may they be to
him, O my Lord, for the pardon of debts, the forgiveness of sins, the great hope
of resurrection from the dead, the salvation of his body and soul, and for life
and glory for ever and ever.

Make us all worthy through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that with all those who have been pleasing to your will, and have conducted
themselves according to your commandments, we may take delight in the kingdom of
heaven in the good things to come which do not pass away. Repeat.

And when the priest says “And may
there come upon us”, the deacon says: In silence and in awe stand
and pray. Peace be with us.

Qanona

And here as well as there may we all together equally confess,
worship, and glorify the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now, always, and for ever
and ever. And he signs over the Mysteries, and they
respond: Amen.